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al qaeda with bases in afghanistan attack the united states on 9/11. just three months later, the u.s. drove the taliban from power, al qaeda and osama bin laden were on the run. it was done with a few hundred cia officers, special forces, and air power. a quick victory. but not decisive. >> that was nbc's richard engel reporting. and he goes on to report that they have made gains, mike barnicle, the life expectancy has extended because of health care, girls are getting educated. but when you look at that piece, you realize there's no way in, no way to stay in and not a good way of getting out, either. >> this is a very depressing story. on october 7th, united states begins its 12th year of war in afghanistan. 12 years. for those of you at home this morning getting the kids ready for school or getting ready for your workday, think of the war in afghanistan this way. if a 20-year-old marine is killed by the afghans, our supposed allies, that marine was 8 years of age when this war began. his first year in little league and dies in afghanistan, a country
al qaeda with bases in afghanistan attack the united states on 9/11. just three months later, the u.s. drove the taliban from power, al qaeda and osama bin laden were on the run. it was done with a few hundred cia officers, special forces, and air power. a quick victory. but not decisive. >> that was nbc's richard engel reporting. and he goes on to report that they have made gains, mike barnicle, the life expectancy has extended because of health care, girls are getting educated. but when...
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but how great is it -- you're right, the united states, we've had a lot of problems, but the united states is getting stronger. >> we are. >> our economy is growing at the same time is slowing down, europe is slowing down. pretty soon all these stories about america's decline which everybody loves to talk about in the united states and across the world is going to seem dated and old. >> with cheap energy, they're going to build here. >> the moderator of last week's debate, jim lehrer. we'll be right back. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> thank you, andy. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. when we come back, mitt romney foreign policy adviser dan senor. >> this is big. >> joins us on set. dan is back. >> do you think he's going
but how great is it -- you're right, the united states, we've had a lot of problems, but the united states is getting stronger. >> we are. >> our economy is growing at the same time is slowing down, europe is slowing down. pretty soon all these stories about america's decline which everybody loves to talk about in the united states and across the world is going to seem dated and old. >> with cheap energy, they're going to build here. >> the moderator of last week's...
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>> do you want a president of the united states who colors his hair? >> oh, my god. >> let's go to mike barnicle, ronald reagan colored his hair for 80 years. that's good. >> is that a yes? >> we don't know. >> mike, really quickly i want to touch on what jim has been talking about, the column was talking about, what a lot of middle swing voters in america are concerned about. that is that washington hasn't worked over the past four years. when you have a new guy coming in and doesn't just talk about changing the tenor of washington but can say, i was a republican governor in a state that was 87% democratic in the legislature. i passed a health care reform bill, and i had ted kennedy standing next to me when i did it. that's a lot different from elizabeth warren saying, i can't name a single person that i would work for on the republican side if i were sent to the senate. >> there were many, many days when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts that when he went to his office, the corner office in the statehouse in boston, massachusetts, he was the
>> do you want a president of the united states who colors his hair? >> oh, my god. >> let's go to mike barnicle, ronald reagan colored his hair for 80 years. that's good. >> is that a yes? >> we don't know. >> mike, really quickly i want to touch on what jim has been talking about, the column was talking about, what a lot of middle swing voters in america are concerned about. that is that washington hasn't worked over the past four years. when you have a new...
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. >> how can you be president of the united states, mark halperin, and, i mean, and not have these basic answers? >> well, it's more than i think the format than not having the answers. he spent a lot of the evening going after mitt romney for things that he thinks he can win the election on like taxes and medicare. it wasn't like he never responded to it. >> but isn't the format in washington is that you get in a room with someone and you go at it and you try and figure it out? >> that's what we're asking. has he been too isolated? listen, we talked to him. the guy is brilliant. he really is. but has he become so isolated there's not the back-and-forth with even democratic leadership? because the democrats will tell you, he doesn't talk to them a whole lot. >> he doesn't listen. >> and he doesn't listen to them. >> he's pretty confident of his own views. look, there are a lot of elements to why the performance was bad starting with he's not that great a debater. he ended up in a room with a guy from his first answer was not the version of mitt romney i think he practiced against. so all
. >> how can you be president of the united states, mark halperin, and, i mean, and not have these basic answers? >> well, it's more than i think the format than not having the answers. he spent a lot of the evening going after mitt romney for things that he thinks he can win the election on like taxes and medicare. it wasn't like he never responded to it. >> but isn't the format in washington is that you get in a room with someone and you go at it and you try and figure it...
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we've seen a downgrade in the united states. they saw household incomes go up under governor romney's time in office by $5,000. household incomes have gone down by $4,300 under president obama. unemployment went down to 5.6% under governor romney in massachusetts. it's gone up to above 8% under president obama. he knows how to govern. and he knows how to lay out the principle, bring people together to achieve those goals in the legislative process, and that's what he's going to do here for america if he's elected. >> i understand that, but briefly, ed, doesn't a voter deserve to know which loophole he will or will not have if he votes for mitt romney? >> well, you know, he talked about last night, you heard him put out, you know, the concept of maybe you would cap the level of deductions so you wouldn't, you know, necessarily eliminate a loophole, you would limit how much of them -- how many deductions you could take. that would give people discretion. you could figure out how high that should be. should it be a percentage of in
we've seen a downgrade in the united states. they saw household incomes go up under governor romney's time in office by $5,000. household incomes have gone down by $4,300 under president obama. unemployment went down to 5.6% under governor romney in massachusetts. it's gone up to above 8% under president obama. he knows how to govern. and he knows how to lay out the principle, bring people together to achieve those goals in the legislative process, and that's what he's going to do here for...
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wherever the president of the united states can go, go. that's a good thing. i do find michael bloomberg's decision to tell him to stay away, really strange. >> interesting. >> one question, does the president of the united states really need permission from the mayor of a city to visit? couldn't he just come on his own? >> he kind of does. >> no one else would turn this down but michael bloomberg. >>> up next, jim, thanks very much. >> thank you, jim, for starting a fight. >> you're looking at live pictures from new jersey. this is the jersey shoreline. as fires break out in the wake of hurricane sandy. we'll bring you an update on the storm's devastation and get the latest on where it's headed with bill karins next on "morning joe." honey, they have the 55 inch lg... [ mom ] we already have a tv. would you like to know more about it? yeah, but let me put my wife on speaker. hi! hi. it's led and it has great picture quality. i don't know... it's ultra slim... maybe next year. you could always put it on layaway and pay a little at a time. alright. we'll take i
wherever the president of the united states can go, go. that's a good thing. i do find michael bloomberg's decision to tell him to stay away, really strange. >> interesting. >> one question, does the president of the united states really need permission from the mayor of a city to visit? couldn't he just come on his own? >> he kind of does. >> no one else would turn this down but michael bloomberg. >>> up next, jim, thanks very much. >> thank you, jim, for...
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we won't have that in the united states. what's the -- >> what's compulsory voting. >> you get fined if you don't vote in australia and have a 90% plus participation. >> that will do it. >> what could we do it for a reform? making election day a federal holiday. >> sure, that would be one thing or early voting expanding it to beyond the states where it is. making absentee voting a little easier. if there were three things that i could do, the first thing i would do reform our voter registration system which is convoluted and outdated so i would make it a lot easier for those to register like canada, the government affirmatively builds lists of eligible voters. i would have election day registration which is something that california recently initiated. it'll be in effect around -- >> around 2015 in california. they're coupling with a sophisticated voter registration system and most importantly, i would try to take some of the partisanship out of the administration of elections. we've got two -- >> really? >> yeah. >> seems l
we won't have that in the united states. what's the -- >> what's compulsory voting. >> you get fined if you don't vote in australia and have a 90% plus participation. >> that will do it. >> what could we do it for a reform? making election day a federal holiday. >> sure, that would be one thing or early voting expanding it to beyond the states where it is. making absentee voting a little easier. if there were three things that i could do, the first thing i would do...
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that was the president of the united states. and that was a critical moment for governor romney and his campaign because it was the first time in these debates that the president showed up. and prior to that, i think just cosmetically, i get the feeling just instinctively that there's a lot of people who were watching that debate, some of them undecided, who know, like in life, in campaigns and in debates, there is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. and i'm wondering how many people out there thought that governor romney crossed that line. >> mark halperin, let's talk about the polls. what's with the divergence in who won and who handled the economy better? that's obviously job number one this year. >> i think kind of baffling. we often have conflicting data. i think this is very baffling. there's no doubt that going into the debate, the big question was, would the president have another bad debate? there's no doubt that he didn't have a bad debate. he had some bad moments, as governor romney did. there's no one
that was the president of the united states. and that was a critical moment for governor romney and his campaign because it was the first time in these debates that the president showed up. and prior to that, i think just cosmetically, i get the feeling just instinctively that there's a lot of people who were watching that debate, some of them undecided, who know, like in life, in campaigns and in debates, there is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. and i'm wondering how many...
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the united states. if he loses all three, this race is over. >> well, with so much riding on ohio, yesterday former president bill clinton and bruce springsteen teamed up in the buckeye state and also in iowa to rally voters for president obama. >> mr. romney says i'm going to do all this. i'm going to just cut taxes for the middle class. i'm not interested in rich people. they'll pay the same percentage of tax they pay now. what does that -- he thinks we're dumb. we keep saying show us your budget. where are your numbers? the president has given you a budget. he said, you won't like all of it. it adds $2.50 of spending cuts for every $1 in new revenues, but we've got to do something about the debt and it will take the debt down $4 trillion. here are my numbers. where are your numbers? this guy ran bain capital and is a business guy, and he's hiding his budget? that ought to tell you something. >> my god. >> you know, mika, it should be illegal to enjoy campaigning as much as bill clinton. he enjoys cam
the united states. if he loses all three, this race is over. >> well, with so much riding on ohio, yesterday former president bill clinton and bruce springsteen teamed up in the buckeye state and also in iowa to rally voters for president obama. >> mr. romney says i'm going to do all this. i'm going to just cut taxes for the middle class. i'm not interested in rich people. they'll pay the same percentage of tax they pay now. what does that -- he thinks we're dumb. we keep saying...
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he went toe to toe with the vice president of the united states. he had command of the issues. and that is a guy, if you had to have it, you could see as the vice president of the united states. i think in the long run, this won't matter a great deal. i don't know if the rest of you agree. we get past this next presidential debate. i think it was sort of a slide past it. >> i agree, i think it pushes it to the next debate and the pressure is really on the president. i'm really looking for either of these candidates and campaigns to make tough choices and tough decisions. and there were two times last night where i think they both missed an opportunity. one when joe biden was asked about extending the age eligibility on entitlements. and martha raddatz said just one year? two years? he dodged the question. he would not answer the question about whether or not there would be any increase in age eligibility. the average life span has creased 15 years since those laws were put in place, and we've only changed it one year. and i think paul ryan missed an opportunity on the issue of
he went toe to toe with the vice president of the united states. he had command of the issues. and that is a guy, if you had to have it, you could see as the vice president of the united states. i think in the long run, this won't matter a great deal. i don't know if the rest of you agree. we get past this next presidential debate. i think it was sort of a slide past it. >> i agree, i think it pushes it to the next debate and the pressure is really on the president. i'm really looking for...
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and the key there is the median family income is just about flat but costs in the united states have gone up. so really your money has gone about 8% less far than it did four years ago. >> you talk next about troops in afghanistan. >> wow. >> yeah, troops in afghanistan, you can see the numbers. you know, they're way, way down. but actually, the numbers that you really want to focus on are iraq. that is a promise that obama made and that's a promise that obama kept. >> are you better off now than you were four years ago in terms of the budget deficit and the gdp? >> so on gdp yes, on budget deficit, clearly you can see we have taken on a lot of money. now, what's interesting about the budget deficit is where it actually comes from. i think a lot of people presume that the stimulus is responsible for most of that. and in fact, it's not true. if you look at our deficit and our debt, the debt number between 2001 and 2010 has gone way, way up. 17% of that is the bush tax cuts. about 12%, 13% of that are the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the stimulus is responsible for 7%. >> okay. so ove
and the key there is the median family income is just about flat but costs in the united states have gone up. so really your money has gone about 8% less far than it did four years ago. >> you talk next about troops in afghanistan. >> wow. >> yeah, troops in afghanistan, you can see the numbers. you know, they're way, way down. but actually, the numbers that you really want to focus on are iraq. that is a promise that obama made and that's a promise that obama kept. >>...
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authorities say the man came to the united states on a student visa in january and he did it with the sole purpose of launching a terror attack. police say that he even took classes in cyber security before trying to contact what he thought were al qaeda operatives. they ended up being undercover agents for the fbi. >> detroit news, after years of promises that electronic cars would end the nation's reliance on imported oil, sales have barely gotten off the ground. ford motor company say it sold only 228 focus electric cars in september and early this week, a123 systems declared bankruptcy. >> boy, that is stunning. the volt running into a lot of trouble over at gm. >>> up next, the best of late night. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one rela
authorities say the man came to the united states on a student visa in january and he did it with the sole purpose of launching a terror attack. police say that he even took classes in cyber security before trying to contact what he thought were al qaeda operatives. they ended up being undercover agents for the fbi. >> detroit news, after years of promises that electronic cars would end the nation's reliance on imported oil, sales have barely gotten off the ground. ford motor company say...